Sr Java/Web Developer
Location: US, CA, Los Angeles
Department: Engineering
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Internet
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
ABOUT THE COMPANY: RANKER (#URL_156a0398411125d5168b6d7d01ef5c9fcb1f06073a28e30b13b0e07ad0829f25#)  #URL_00929b972366e2cf9eea7ef060232361c201119fb450e0772324870195ae6fb6# is the leading platform for crowdsourced rankings of everything – topics both entertaining and practical (pop culture, sports, music and just about everything else anyone cares about).  Ranker is a rapidly growing, well-funded and profitable startup.  The company is building to be one of the most popular businesses in the digital world.HIGHLIGHTS: #URL_00929b972366e2cf9eea7ef060232361c201119fb450e0772324870195ae6fb6# launched in August of 2009 and has grown to more than 16 million monthly unique visitors and generate over 250 million pageviews.  A Quantcast top 200 site (top 100 for mobile)   Forbes named Ranker one of 15 Explosively Growing Companies to Watch in 2013.Raised over $3.1M from investors including:Draper Associates, Rincon Venture Partners, Siemer Venture Capital and various angels.Entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, Founder of Factual – Gil Elbaz (bio)Led by serial entrepreneur and CEO, Clark Benson (bio) – former Founder of eCrush.

Job description:
ABOUT THE COMPANY: RANKER (#URL_156a0398411125d5168b6d7d01ef5c9fcb1f06073a28e30b13b0e07ad0829f25#)  #URL_00929b972366e2cf9eea7ef060232361c201119fb450e0772324870195ae6fb6# is the leading platform for crowdsourced rankings of everything – topics both entertaining and practical (pop culture, sports, music and just about everything else anyone cares about).  Ranker is a rapidly growing, well-funded and profitable startup.  The company is building to be one of the most popular businesses in the digital world.HIGHLIGHTS:#URL_00929b972366e2cf9eea7ef060232361c201119fb450e0772324870195ae6fb6# launched in August of 2009 and has grown to more than 16 million monthly unique visitors and generate over 250 million pageviews.  A Quantcast top 200 site (top 100 for mobile)   Forbes named Ranker one of 15 Explosively Growing Companies to Watch in 2013.Raised over $3.1M from investors including:Draper Associates, Rincon Venture Partners, Siemer Venture Capital and various angels.Entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, Founder of Factual – Gil Elbaz (bio)Led by serial entrepreneur and CEO, Clark Benson (bio) – former Founder of eCrush.ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY: SENIOR JAVA WEB DEVELOPERRanker is looking for a Senior Java Developer with a broad skillset and understanding of high-transaction web environments to join the small and rapidly growing engineering team.  This is a very hands on-opportunity to join and have an immediate, tangible impact in one of Southern California’s fastest growing consumer facing web startup.  We are a collaborative team working on a highly scalable consumer web application.Specific to the technology… The Ranker technology stack consists of custom CMS framework built on Spring MVC running inside Tomcat.Ranker leverages data sets of millions of entities, aggregate linked data graphs into Ranker to expose them to the user base for the list building platform.Large scale data processing and Ranker go hand-in-hand as we continue to target structured data sets of value to augment our existing knowledge base.The Ranker engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining a highly trafficked site (over 3.5 million monthly visitors and growing), a distributed app and most importantly large scale data aggregation.Utilizing a RDF triple store Ranker ingests tens of millions entities (which include over 50MM triples) to push the limits of how data aggregation can impact a consumer site as well as building out our distributed application framework into multiple verticals. 

Requirements:
THE RIGHT CANDIDATE = TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE x PERSONA3+ years of web development with object oriented languages.3+ years of developing Java J2EE applications utilizing OO design patterns.2+ years of experience with architecting in a large scale, high throughput environments.3+ years of hands-on experience working with MySQL.Linux experience, including basic administration, command line/shell scripting.Experienced with Tomcat, Spring 2.0/3.0, HTML/CSS/JavaScript/AJAX/JSONExperienced with data architecture. Strong master data management methodology experience and experience with relational databases, overcoming data quality issues. Experience configuring and supporting a 24/7 production environment.You MUST have hands-on experience engineering and developing a widely used, tech/web/mobile product. You are an engineer at heart and really care about performance and scalability of web applications.YOU LOVE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS – you don’t see this as a task; it’s a passion.You’re the type of team member who is willing to pick up slack and do the unglamorous tasks to help grow the company.Huge plus if you contribute to open source projects!You would love the opportunity to be part of building a widely used consumer facing web startup.  

Benefits:
WHY RANKER?NOT because Ranker offers a competitive salary + stock/equity options + benefits.NOT because Ranker offer all the usual startup perks, fully stocked kitchen, flexible time off, etc.NOT because Ranker is located in a centralized location near Mid-Wilshire. BUT: Because you will be part of a results-driven, entrepreneurial team, shaping the company’s technology.Because at Ranker, you will be a significant impact to not only the engineering team but the entire company.Because you take pride in what you do.Because you really care about the products you build and how it will impact Ranker’s users.Because you want to work at a place that values "getting things done."